Diagnóstico de tempo e transformação da crítica: Habermas e a origem da reconstrução

Abstract

The objectives of the article are to explicitate the original conception of the reconstructive critical model by Jürgen Habermas as a consistent attempt of leaving a dilemma faced by the author with the imposition of a time diagnosis and to evidence the conditionality of this new model to the rightness of that diagnosis. In view of the stage of the so called late capitalism, Habermas verified the historical impossibility of persisting in the model of critique of ideology, because the social conflict within which such kind of criticism could operate was supposed to be deactivated or imobilized due to the increasingly technicized form assumed by the relations of interaction. In response to that aporia, Habermas develops the reconstructive method as a second-order reflection, in a step out of the concrete social relations and in the direction of its transcendental conditions of possibility, in order to guarantee at least the access to the counterfactual rules with which criticism would remain guaranteed in a second moment.